The GeForce RTX 5090 Ti, an uber-flagship graphics card based on the “Blackwell” architecture that may or may not actually be planned for release by NVIDIA, could feature dual 12-pin (12V-2×6) power connectors and draw as much as 800 watts of power, according to new speculation prompted by the specifications for what is said to be a prototype GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card that emerged out of China today.
“I got an RTX5090 engineering card. This was used for designing for AIC manufacturers in the early days,” omonob wrote on the Chip Hell forums today before going on to share some of the specifications of the GPU, which include 24,576 cores, a core frequency of 2,100/2,514 MHz, 32 GB of memory, and a power consumption of “800W” alongside not one, but dual 12-pin power connectors.
“There is no driver now. Please help me. If you can provide the driver, I will pay you a lot of money,” the poster continued.
The majority of these specifications match the final specs of the GB202, the leading “Blackwell” GPU that drives the GeForce RTX 5090, NVIDIA’s latest flagship graphics card for gamers and creators, which goes on sale January 30 and is said to deliver stunning visual realism and up to a 2x performance increase.
“Nvidia still has the option to sell us this, call it the Ti model, in a year or so when their yields have increased and most parts made into 5090s are fully functional as anyway,” reads speculation from one enthusiast.
“They can take a GB202 and package it up as an RTX 6000 Blackwell (or whatever their naming convention is now for workstation cards) and charge $7k for it,” said another.